The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-14
Ciinton.s Centenn1aI


UTICA, n. Y, July 1S.-President
Cleveland and party reached Clinton
about 10 a. m. An immense crowd was
at the station to greet him. They were
escorted by the Jacksonians to Mrs. o.
J. Williams residence, where they were
greeted by prominent members of the
centennial committee and many veneer
able citizens while the parade of six di-
visions were going over the route. In
the parade were the chief descendants
of the Indians who gave the site of the
village to its founders, ShenandO and
Doxtater and over one hundred Onei-
daS with an Indian band from OnOdago
reservation. Nearly all the available
space within the village limits is
crowed with spectators and they are
coming in on every train and by every
roadway. After the parade the presi-
dent spent an hour in receiving callers
at Mrs. Williams home and over 5000
people were presented. The exer-
cises in the park did not commence
until nearly O'Clock. Rev. Henry
Darling, president of Hamilton college.
offered the opening prayer. Rev. f. L,
Powell then made an address of wei.
come, to which the president responded.
President Cleveland said: l am by
no means certain of my standing here
among those who celebrate the centen-
NAL of Clinton existence as a village.
My recollections of the place reach
backwards but about thirty-siX years,
and my residence here covered very
brief period. But these recollections
are fresh and distinct to-day, and
pleasant, too, though not entirely free
from a sombre cOlOring. 1t was here
in, cnHnnI of tho foot of (NnlloRn Hill
that began my preparation for college
life, and enjoyed the anticipation of a
collegiate education. We had two
teachers in our school. One became
Judge in Chicago, and the other went
through the legal profession to the
ministry and within the last two years
was living further west. read little
later with two other boys in the class.
think fioundeTed through four books
of 1Eneid. The other boys had large
modern editions of Virgil, with large
print and plenty of notes to help one
over the hard places. Mine was little
old-fashiohed copy which my father
used before me, with no notes, and
| which was only translated by hard
knocks. l believe / have for
given those other boys for their
persistent refusal to allow me the use
of the notes in their books. AT any
| rate they do not seem to have been
overtaken by my dire retribution, as
one OF. them is now a rich and prosper
| Gus lawyer in Buffalo, and the other is
now a.prOfessor in your college and the
orator of to-day's celebration. The
| struggles with ten lines of Virgil
which at first made up my daily task
| are amusing as remembered now, but
with them l am also forced to Temem
Der that instead of being at the
beginning of the higher education
for which l honestly 1onged, the y &C
CURED near the end of my school ad
vantages. This suggests a disappoint
ment which no lapse of time can allie
Viate and the deprivation / have sadl.
felt with every passing year. 1remem
Der Benoni Butler and his store. don
know whether he was an habitual poe
or not, but heard him recite one poem
of his own manufacture which embod
led an account of travel to or from
Clinton in the early days. can REGAL
but two lines of the poem, which is a
follows:
Paris hill came in sight,
And there we taFried over night.
! remember the next door neighbors
Doctors Bissell and Scollard, and
good kind of neighbors they were, to
, not your cross, grabbed kind, VIII
) couldn't bear to see a boy about.
always seemed to me they drove yer
fine horses, and for that reason
thought they were extremely rich.
, don't see why should indulge in furtl
er recOllections that must seem yer
much like centennial history, but
l want to establish my right to be her
I might have spoken of the college fai
ulty, who cast such a pleasing thong
2 sombre shade of dignity over tt
. place, and who, with other e,
!, ucated and substantial citizen
!. made up the best of seri
: life. / was boy then; but, notwitl
y standing, believe | absorbed lastiI
: appreciation of the intelligence and r
: finement which made this a delightfl
: home. know that you will bear wit
r me, my friends, if 1 yield to an impul:
: which the mention of home creates, an
q speak of my home here, and HOY
!. through the memories which clust.
= about it, may claim tender relatio
:. ship with your village. Here it WI
r that our family circle entire-paren
) and children-lived day after day
3 affectionate and loving converse, al
here, for the last time, we met arouI
the family altar and thanked CT
our household was unbroken by dea
If or separation. We never N
= together in any other home after lea
y ing this. and death followed close
sr our departure, and thus it is that wi
% advancing years survey the hav
y which death has made, and
~ thoughts of my early home becm
"A more and more a sacred remembraT
:, of this pleasant spot. 1 can only a
my thanks for the privilege of bel
with you to-day, and wish for the '
LACE of Clinton in the future a contiI
k alton and increase of blessings of
rs past.
lis Dissenting RDIscOpalians.
CHARLEsToN, S. c., July 81
7 committee appointed by the cleri
re and lay delegates, who withdrew fl
the diocesan EPISCOPAL convention